Raymond Pettibon, Untitled, 1988, ink on paper, 17½ × 11¼ inches. Courtesy of Feature Gallery.
Sanded, ink on paper work of a figure holding onto a galloping horse, Black Slipping by Peter Drake.
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Featuring interviews with Nan Goldin, Elizabeth LeCompte, Robert Duvall, P.M. Dawn, Jane Wilson, Louis Edwards, Craig Coleman, James Chance, Hal Hartley, and Constance Congdon.
Work that is just about the technical or conceptual, personal or political, is fine; it meets the world with what’s in fashion. But there’s something else bordering on magic, that brings an artwork home, makes it land and resonate. You can’t really teach that so much as conjure it.
Kara Walker
